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THE SECRET SHE DID NOT TAKE TO THE GRAVE My aunt Theresa Paparelli died this Thanksgiving Day 2005. She had a business secret that she used for her life and passed on to her son and me. Her husband, my mother's brother Sam was a roofer. He worked on repairing and putting on new roofs on homes and businesses. He worked for some rich guy. His wife always wanted him to go into business for himself. He did not listen to her. And he was always collecting unemployment in the winter months when he ...
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Most of our Founding Fathers, including Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, like most average colonial Americans, spent few years, if any, in formal grammar schools of the day, yet they knew how to read and write well. Most voluntary local grammar schools expected parents to teach their children to read and write before they started school. Most colonial parents apparently had no trouble teaching their children these skills. At least ten of our ...
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The brain is like a muscle -- you use it or lose it. During summer vacation is your child "losing it"? Picture two different athletes. Athlete A is on a schedule where she trains ten months and then takes two months off. Athlete B trains year round. When Athlete A goes back to training after her two months of being a couch potato, she's going to feel sluggish, slow, and frustrated, while Athlete B is still in prime shape. So, how do we, as parents, keep our children's brains in tip-top shape? ...
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Moving day stinks. There's no two ways about it. You've spent hours packing up and preparing for the arrival of your movers. Then you hold your breath as they begin the arduous process of transporting all of your worldly possessions from one place to another. You hope your furniture survives the journey and that your new home survives the move-in process unscathed. Few of us are able to claim that our homes or furniture didn't suffer a single scratch, that a mirror didn't break or that at least ...
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It isn't a matter of if it will happen to you but -- when. PC users may be divided into two groups -- those who have had a disaster and those who will have to deal with a PC disaster. For you, more to the point is how you will react to it! Will it be major disaster that will put you and your business at a stand-still? Or will it be a minor inconvenience of a couple hours down time? Or better yet, are you willing to make the effort now to prevent the disaster from striking your PC ...
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GOFFSTOWN, NEW HAMPSHIRE... Shattuck Sealcoating and Calvano's Sealcoating, two of the asphalt industry's most respected names in southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts, have just joined forces with BLACK DAWG SEALCOAT.  With these new additions, BLACK DAWG now has six franchise locations-making it one of the largest operators of its kind in New England.Since BLACK DAWG's inception less than four years ago, Jack Child, a former military officer, pilot and founder of BLACK DAWG ...
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Events such as the Asian Tsunami, and the terrorist attacks in London, have focused the minds of the public on the issue of post trauma stress. But while the need for post trauma support and counselling for those directly affected by events such as these may be apparent, there are many more people who may also require support. Occupational Health or Human Resources professionals, or anyone working in an employee support role, may very easily need to provide help to an employee who has lost ...
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If only you could work from home you would be able to get more done. No interruptions from co-workers. No pretentious banter with your boss. No sitting in meetings for hours thinking about all the work you could be doing, or better yet, daydreaming of being someplace else altogether. And beyond all that, you'd have no worries about who would pick up the kids or prepare dinner or how you'll manage to squeeze in your daily workout. Heck, if you worked from home, you'd be able to do all that and ...
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You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as the bylines are included. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated - send to: MagicBullets@Alaska.Com How Can the Average Person Build Wealth in Real Estate? Books on real estate are a dime a dozen'and most focus on taking advantage of someone else's misfortune. They frequently describe lofty methods for buying and selling properties no ordinary citizen can be successful using. ...
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Choosing the right central heating boilers for your home can be a tough task. There are many things to be considered like money to invest,space in the office,amount of hot water used and amount of money you save on the new boiler. By law all new home boilers must now be more energy saving combi boilers unless it is very costly to fit one. To over come this problems a new type of central heating boilers are developed called Combi Boilers. What is a Condesing Boilers? A Combination Boiler is the ...
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A janitorial cleaning service is one of the best businesses for a hardworking, blue collar person to start from scratch. Every business and every building needs to be cleaned once in a while - in some cases, many times each day. With the overhead involved with hiring employees to provide janitorial services, it is convenient for a company to outsource to a commercial janitorial service provider. This is where you step in! If you are reading this article, you are probably looking for advice on ...
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Where are you on the life satisfaction scale? Are you feeling that you have finally arrived at the destiny you have been working so hard for all of your life? Do you feel like you are energetically pursuing your calling and God's plan for your life? Or are you more in the camp that things are going okay on a day to day basis? Neither passion or peace have come knocking in a while. Now that you think about it, more accurately you are just getting by! To get a true feel for where you are in your ...
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It's Monday morning and Connie the Consultant sits in her executive office chair overseeing her business empire. Her desk is strewn with half finished projects, several weeks worth of to do lists (none of them completed), scribbled post it notes, and a permission slip for her daughter's field trip to the Planetarium that should have been turned in last week. Somewhere, buried deep in the rubble is Connie's business plan. The last time she saw it was during the Clinton Administration. The phone ...
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SHARED RESIDENCE AGREEMENTS A roommate agreement is made by two or more people who are sharing living expenses. All roommates should have a clear understanding about their individual responsibilities for rent and other living expenses. Without a written agreement problems are more likely to arise. Few things could be more uncomfortable than sharing a house with someone with whom you have an ongoing disagreement about financial matters. It is always best to have such understandings in a written ...
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On the surface, it sounds simple enough. But, in fact, the simple re-inspection of a previously inspected home or property is very high liability to the working home inspector. A synopsis of the complexities of the re-inspection process, and why it worries home inspectors, is provided below. Frequently a home inspector is asked to re-inspect repairs at a house where that inspector had previously performed an inspection. This is typically done at a fraction of the cost of the original ...
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Twelve Oaks at Stafford Hills is a development of 180 duplex style homes designed with the ease of first floor living in mind. All the features in this active adult community in Massachusetts are designed with the active senior in mind. The homes are 2-3 bedroom, 1½-3 bathroom duplex structures that are available with one or two car garages, and spacious kitchens. Every home will offer 1,700-2,300 square feet of living space with basements. Lovely small clusters of homes gently meld with the ...
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Call accounting and tracking system helps County with cost allocation Los Angeles County's two-month search for a turnkey call accounting and tracking system to control telecom expenses in over 125 County locations ended in a contract with Telsoft Solutions to install MegaCall, a robust enterprise-level call-tracking system ideal for corporate telecom expense management. "The county of Los Angeles was seeking an in-house call accounting program to track and allocation costs for calls placed ...
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So you have decided to take the plunge a home-based business. Good for you! It will be nice to be able to wake up every day, grab a cup of coffee and walk into your office. No more rush hour, no more cubicle, and a chance to make it on your own. Sounds great doesn't it? But there is one small snag before you can open shop. You need to know just what sort of business you should be running. There are a myriad of opportunities for your small business requiring very little initial investment. If ...
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Olga Brunner is founder of A Good Daughter, Inc. (www.agooddaughter.com) located in Margate, Florida. Brunner is certified by the Society of Certified Senior Advisors, the international organization that has trained over 20,000 professionals in all fifty states. Brunner has a number of clients whose adult children reside on Long Island, with Parents living in Florida who require attention and it often creates a unique challenge to find and manage the caretaking. Brunner has become the ...
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Massachusetts is a state overflowing with history and yet oddly modern. Massachusetts real estate prices are very pricey. Massachusetts Massachusetts is an incredible mix of history and bustling modern influences. Historically, the state took in many of the initial European immigrants and was the location of crucial battles in the Revolutionary War. Throw in events such as the Boston Tea Party and you have a state with a heritage. While appreciating the past, Massachusetts also pays homage ...
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